Singapore has again been rated by expats as the best country in the world to live and work, in the new HSBC Expat Explorer survey. Singapore saw off competition from Norway, which rose four places to come second. Culturally very different yet both highly ... ( read original story ...)
Godrej Group’s animal feeds unit to sell shares in India IPO
Godrej Agrovet is selling up to 2.92 million shares in the IPO, while parent Godrej Industries is offloading shares worth up to 3 billion rupees. Singapore's Temasek Holdings, which owns a 20% stake in the company, will sell up to 12.3 million shares ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Temasek Buys Stake in CAA
Entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency said Tuesday that Temasek, a Singapore-based investment company, has acquired a stake in it. The companies didn't disclose the size of the stake or the price tag of the deal, but said "the strategic ... ( read original story ...)
Appeals court: Singapore blogger should be granted US asylum
Singapore's government criticized the March decision, with the Ministry of Home Affairs saying the U.S. "allows such hate speech under the rubric of freedom of speech." [The Daily Progress news app keeps you up-to-date. Click here to get the free iOS or ... ( read original story ...)
‘Burning smell’ across Singapore: Industrial plants in north-east operating normally, says NEA
SINGAPORE: Air quality levels in Singapore remain within safety limits, said the National Environment Agency (NEA) on Tuesday (Sep 26), a day after residents in many areas complained of a strong burning smell. NEA said its checks included levels of ... ( read original story ...)
UBS Singapore has just hired a senior salesman in FICC rebuild
https://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/289844/goldman-hires-macro-trading-hong-kong-singapore/ UBS has hired a senior FX salesman in Singapore, in a sign that its FICC rebuild is spreading to Asia. Rene Schwarzl joined UBS earlier this month as an ... ( read original story ...)
FuelLNG Conducts Truck-To-Ship Bunker Transfer in Singapore
FuelLNG, which is a joint venture between a unit of Keppel Offshore & Mairne and Shell Eastern Petroleum, completed a truck-to-ship bunkering operation, according to Singapore-based news provider Straits Times. Already the world's largest bunkering port ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Morning News For September 26
Singapore and Indonesia on Monday (Sep 25) concluded a third maritime boundary border treaty. A 37-year-old Singaporean man has been fined S$2,000 for receiving a Rolex watch from his mother-in-law, who bought it duty-free in Singapore as a tourist. ( read original story ...)
This Troll From Singapore Will Be Released From US Jail After Having His Asylum Upheld
The appeals court upheld the judge's original decision that "found that his prosecution in Singapore was actually pretext to silence his political opinion," Grossman said in an interview with BuzzFeed News. BuzzFeed News interviewed Yee for a story last ... ( read original story ...)
Further Damage Expected For Singapore Shares
(RTTNews.com) - The Singapore stock market headed south again on Monday, one session after it had ended the three-day slide in which it had stumbled almost 30 points or 0.9 percent. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,215-point plateau and ... ( read original story ...)
Making sense of Belt and Road – The Asean bank: UOB
Cheong says UOB has acquired more than 1,200 FDI customers just by providing them with this connectivity. Singapore banks see a few cards they can play. One is the solid argument that any Chinese company active in southeast Asia ought to use Singapore as a ... ( read original story ...)
Manufacturing output up 19.1% in August in boost to Q3 growth
Economists from DBS, United Overseas Bank (UOB) and Maybank Kim Eng expect third-quarter gross domestic product growth to range from above 3 per cent to 4.3 per cent. The Singapore economy had grown by 2.9 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter. ( read original story ...)
Here’s how SATS could benefit from Qantas’ Singapore comeback
SATS could be in for a feast following Qantas Airways' recent change of transit hubs, according to UOB Kay Hian. Qantas previously announced that from 18 March, it will shift its transit hub from Dubai to Singapore for its kangaroo routes. Consequently ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. crude exports to Asia may shake up global oil pricing: Russell
SINGAPORE, Sept 26 (Reuters ... but perhaps the rapid pace of the shift has caught some in the market off-guard. Crude oil exports to Asia from the United States are still relatively small-scale, with Thomson Reuters Oil Research and Forecasts estimating ... ( read original story ...)
RPT-COLUMN-U.S. crude exports to Asia may shake up global oil pricing: Russell
SINGAPORE, Sept 26 (Reuters ... but perhaps the rapid pace of the shift has caught some in the market off-guard. Crude oil exports to Asia from the United States are still relatively small-scale, with Thomson Reuters Oil Research and Forecasts estimating ... ( read original story ...)
Brazil’s beef exports to return near to record, as scandal blows over
“South Africa, Iraq, Iran, Malaysia, Myanmar and Singapore not only resumed beef imports from Brazil, but mutual negotiations between these countries and the Brazilian government are centred in the eligibility of new Brazilian plants for exports,” the ... ( read original story ...)